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Last year’s BookExpo Ambassador Award winner, PEN America, returned to the Javits Center this year for a panel called “Can Free Speech Be Saved?,” which featured two veteran journalists,… More

NEW YORK (AP) — Margaret Atwood, Stephen Sondheim and Patrick Stewart are among dozens of artists and journalists calling for the release of Ukrainian filmmaker and dissident Oleg Sentsov. Sentsov,… More

The first time Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Samantha Fuentes got onstage to accept the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award, she was sick at the… More

Late on a rainy afternoon last week, Cameron Kasky and Zion Kelly, gun-reform activists, were in the lobby of the Hotel Beacon, on the Upper West Side, wearing tuxedos.… More

French President Emmanuel Macron adds his voice to calls for release of Oleg Sentsov who is approaching the second week of a hunger strike to protest what he calls… More

PEN America held its annual Literary Gala on Tuesday at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. The event drew roughly 1,000 people and raised more than $2.2… More

NEW YORK (AP) — On a night when speakers included Stephen King, Morgan Freeman and Margaret Atwood, no one at the PEN American gala had a more moving and… More

Samantha Fuentes is one of the many students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has shown incredible poise since the February 14 shooting at her school, speaking at… More

On Tuesday, Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were honored at the PEN America Literary Gala in New York. Attending on their behalf to accept the PEN/Barbey… More

Over the past couple of years, I’ve let every one of my magazine subscriptions lapse. Part of it is that it became expensive, and I needed to reduce expenses. But… More